
DevOps Chat: IBM draws on deep DevOps experience to launch Bluemix Garage Method
With the start of the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 this morning IBM has made what they are touting as a major announcement. Drawing on their wide and deep experience in DevOps across multiple segments of the company, they have announced Garage Method. What exactly is Bluemix Garage Method? Great question. I spoke today with […]

DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 kicks off
Are you going to San Francisco? If you are you don’t have to wear a flower in your hair. But if you are into DevOps or want to be and are in San Francisco this week you should be at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 (DOES 2015). The conference produced and hosted by Gene Kim’s IT […]

DevOps for Systems of Record – A new hope (Preview of DOES talk)
I am speaking at the DevOps Enterprise Summit later in the month and thought I give people a teaser of what I am going to talk about, so that they know what to expect. I am looking forward to share my story – a story of adversity but also of hope – with many of […]

The Women of DevOps
No, this isn’t about some new calendar featuring scantily clad IT chicks. In fact the fact you even thought that is half the problem. This article arises out of the fact that I was speaking with a colleague the other day and once again had to regretfully recite that something like 95% of you reading […]

DOES15 – A Focus on DevOps Execution
“I recently attended my second DevOpsDays, and even one year later I noticed that the audience had changed a lot” – says Travis Cunningham a Software Engineer at SmartFile during an interview about their development environment. What Travis is speaking to is the fact that DevOps has matured dramatically in a short amount of time. […]

How do large enterprises do DevOps? Recap of my third video chat with the 2015 DevOps Enterprise Summit Speakers
Earlier this morning I had the pleasure of hosting the third video chat with and some of the speakers of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015. This live event featured: Paul Reed | Director of Site Reliability Services/Principal Consultant, Salesforce Attend Paul’s talk at DOES15: The Blameless Cloud: Bringing Actionable Retrospectives to Salesforce Kris Buytaert | CTO @ […]

How do large enterprises address the challenges of DevOps? Recap of my Video Chat with the DevOps Enterprise Summit Speakers
Last Friday, I was delighted to spend an entire hour with seven leaders of DevOps transformations, discussing the practices and patterns they see for leading a DevOps transformation in large, complex organizations. It was an honor to have them share their lessons learned and tips for how large organizations address some of the challenges of […]

What to expect at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015
I am unbelievably excited about DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015. As amazing as last year’s event was, it will be even better this year. I wanted to share with you what you can expect this year at the conference and give you a behind-the-scenes look inside the programming committee goals and how they informed the overall […]